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Rapid increases in private sector debt across Asia could leave some countries vulnerable as interest rates return to more normal levels, Changyong Rhee, director in the Asia and Pacific department at the International Monetary Fund, has warned. -
GlobalMarkets talks to Agus Martowardojo, governor of Bank Indonesia, about making changes to his policy toolkit and whether another rate cut is on the cards
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This article is the third part in a series of four on China’s Belt and Road Initiative that we are publishing during the 2017 IMF-World Bank annual meetings in Washington DC. We have devoted two articles to the Road element and two to the Belt element, of which this piece is the first and focuses on the Asian part of the overland route
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Nestor Espenilla, the new governor of the Philippines central bank, talks to GlobalMarkets about the country’s infrastructure spending push, the need for a deeper bond market and his long wait for reform
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Sea said its backer Tencent Holdings, the Chinese technology giant, will take up a $100m portion of the southeast Asian e-sports company’s $696m IPO in the US.
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Myanmar may be in the middle of a crisis as more than half a million Rohingya flee anti-Muslim militants. But investors are willing to look past the humanitarian crisis and find opportunities in the frontier market.
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Big questions remain around how China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative will be financed. But experts tell GlobalMarkets the answer, or at least part of it, may be in asset-backed securitization — with Indonesia making some headway recently and China gearing up for some action.
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A trio of Asian firms listing in the US have received stellar responses to their IPOs, with Qudian, Rise Education and Sea all getting the thumbs-up from investors.
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An unnamed investor bagged MR489.3m ($116.1m) from the accelerated sale of shares in Malaysia’s Tenaga Nasional on Wednesday evening, after the deal priced at the tight end of the marketing range.
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Citic Envirotech turned to the Singapore dollar market for a perpetual non-call three year bond this week, revising pricing 40bp from initial guidance. The company was helped by its deep roots in Singapore and its ownership by China’s Citic Group.
